Les feuilles de l'olivier [English translation]

I have always known this olive tree

Small, robust and so beautiful

But someday, it will bend

Its green leaves will lay on the ground

And then, little by little, they will disappear underground

It may be better off this way,

And who knows? It will surely have grown somewhere else...

As long as I am alive,

I will water with water (and with tears)

The memory of that tree which, unknowingly,

Is the tree I admired the most

In the new spring,

There won't be any leaves left

Neither this one, nor any other

I wish it were everlasting, that olive tree!

• Artist:Les Discrets
• Album:Septembre et ses dernières pensées